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i wonder what are the security implications. how many new vulnerabilities will be uncovered, machines infected, and viruses implemented in wasm. the concept of
by somurzakov 7y ago
i wonder what are the security implications. how many new vulnerabilities will be uncovered, machines infected, and viruses implemented in wasm.
the concept of wasm doesn't really fly with zero-trust internet
- yzmtf2008 7y ago> if any website can load a javascript that loads wasm code that does whatever Any website can already do that with asm.js. WASM does not change the security model of browsers.
- weberc2 7y agoCan you elaborate? I would think the sandbox nature of wasm would be a better fit than other models, and presumably no worse than JavaScript?
- somurzakov 7y agoi am not convinced that wasm interpreter will be bug/vulnerability free. as it was the case for every new piece of software there will be ton of vulnerabilties in the VM itself that will be exploited